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Can send but not receive emails on Exchange 2003

I just created a primary email for myself in Active Directory. I then added the domain to be handled in Exchange 2003 by adding it to the Default Recipient Policy and made it the primary smtp, and updated the policy. I can send emails fine, but I can't receive. The sender doesn't get any failed delivery report or anything, it's like it disappears into cyberspace. The Exchange queue is zero as well. And another thing is that I can send an email to myself and receive it fine, but I don't get emails from the outside. What could be happening?
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When I had a problem recently with Exchange that required a rebuild, we had the same thing pop up.
We figured out it was IIS registering incorrectly.
Open a command Prompt
Navigate to the directory of .net 1.1 (should be something like c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v1.1.4322\
Run aspnet_regiis.exe i
Restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant.

that worked for us at least, I am not sure you are having the exact same problem, but its a place to start.
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I tried restarting the mail attendant, and regiis, then even restarted the Exchange server completely. That didn't work. I used the telnet to check the response and I get:

220 mail.MyMail.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ready at  Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:34:12 -0400

I also tried sending an email to an outside email address (Yahoo/Hotmail) and it received the email fine. But when I reply back to the email from the Yahoo account, it gets lost in space somewhere. Any other ideas?
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Yes the MX record points to my network, and port 25 is pointing the Exchange box. I don't think it's the network settings because I have other email domains handled by the Exchange box that have been working fine for some time now. This is just a new email domain that I added and made the primary email address.
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Ahh it was the MX record priorities that had to be rearranged. Details, details.. Thanks!